The Indian prime minister's visit will be his first one to the Kremlin in five years.
India n Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold talks with Russia n President Vladimir Putin next week in first bilateral meet since re-election India n Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on July 8 and 9 to hold official talks with President Vladimir Putin .
Russian officials first announced the visit last month, but the dates have not been previously disclosed until the Kremlin made the announcement, on Thursday, local time. Under Mr Modi's leadership, India has avoided condemning Russia's action in Ukraine while emphasising the need for a peaceful settlement.
He sent his foreign minister to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at its' annual meeting in Kazakhstan's capital of Astana, which is being attended by Mr Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.Mr Modi last visited Russia in 2019 for an economic forum in the far eastern port of Vladivostok. He last travelled to Moscow in 2015.
In the early 1990s, the Soviet Union was the source of about 70 per cent of Indian army weapons, 80 per cent of its air force systems and 85 per cent of its navy platforms. The "Mango" projectiles that will be made in India are designed to be fired from the guns of T-72 and T-90 tanks which India's land forces use, Rostec said in a statement.
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